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Selected Poems of Corsino Fortes
by Corsino Fortes
Translated from Portuguese by Daniel Hahn, Sean O'Brien
Published: April 2015
Paperback ISBN: 9780914671114
Ebook ISBN: 9780914671121
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Corsino Fortes’ collection Pão & Fonema [Bread & Phoneme] appeared in 1974, the year that Portugal’s dictator Antonío Salazar was overthrown, which triggered the decolonization of the Cape Verde Islands in 1975.
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Though not overtly political, the images in these poems reverberate with approaching renewal – drums surround the island, dead caravels await revival, children scatter seeds near the quiet strings of instruments. Growing out of a Modernist tradition yet composing with a distinctly singular vision, Fortes excavates the gut, heart, and mind, giving us vivid and often hallucinatory glimpses of the land, sea, and people of Cape Verde.
His poems become earth- and word-scapes rooted in the land and the body. This first substantial English-language collection